TYPORAMA
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August 26th
Trinity University Press
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ABOUT HOW THE HELL DID I NOT KNOW THAT?:
After quitting her job with an awkward text to her boss, Lucie Frost planned to live out her early retirement fantasy. Except she was lost, an empty nester with no job, no structure, no identity, and no clear purpose.
Everything changed after she binge-watched the television program 90 Day Fiancé one day, which led to a stream of answers to her question about midlife stagnation: What do we do with our lives when our jobs or children are no longer making those decisions for us?
Her trivia-filled memoir, How the Hell Did I Not Know That?, follows the first year of Frost’s post-retirement era, a year when curiosity pulled her off the couch and into a world where she discovered how to build a fulfilling life from the smallest of wonders—things like how to un-boil an egg with urine (but why, oh why?), where the Vice President of the United States lives (something we should know?), and why the sky is blue (wait, didn’t we learn that in third grade?).
Frost shows us that women “of a certain age” need to take themselves seriously while remembering to laugh at inappropriate things and that they can find meaning in life by relying on the power of curiosity.
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PRAISE FOR HOW THE HELL DID I NOT KNOW THAT?:
"A memoir laced with humor and profanity that will draw readers in and keep them turning the pages as they learn facts about various subjects and the spirited Frost’s struggles and triumphs in navigating midlife."--Library Journal
Lucie Frost retired as a lawyer and is now a humor and satire writer. She is a regular contributor to NextTribe and has written for Slackjaw, Belladonna, Points in Case, and other publications.
She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
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